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The Grave Talks | Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural

Interpreting Nightmares, Part One | Grave Talks CLASSIC

The Grave Talks | Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural

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🗓️ 30 January 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE!

Nightmares are universal.

Being chased. Trapped. Watched. Confronted by something dark that feels far too real. We often dismiss them as stress, illness, major life changes—or maybe just the result of watching something scary before bed. But what if nightmares aren’t random at all? What if they’re messages?

On this episode of The Grave Talks, we explore how to make sense of our darkest dreams with J.M. DeBord, author of Nightmares: Your Guide to Interpreting Your Darkest Dreams. J.M. explains how the unconscious mind communicates through fear-based imagery, symbolism, and recurring dream themes—and why nightmares may be trying to help rather than harm.

We discuss common nightmare scenarios, how to separate symbolic meaning from literal fear, and the tools anyone can use to begin decoding their dreams. Are nightmares warnings? Emotional processing? Or something deeper surfacing when the conscious mind shuts down?

If you’ve ever woken up shaken and wondered why a dream felt so real, this conversation may finally help you understand what your mind has been trying to say all along.

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0:00.0

Today on The Grave Talks, a conversation about nightmares with author and dream analyst J.M. DeBorde.

0:10.4

Nightmares, we've all had them. You're trapped or chased, haunted by demons, and then you wake up, terrified and wondering what it all meant.

0:26.1

They can be triggered by many things like stress, life changes, illness, and maybe the reason is simply that scary movie you watched before bed.

0:29.8

But is your unconscious mind delivering messages to you while you sleep?

0:35.5

Let's explore the tools you need to sort through and make sense of your

0:40.4

nightmares. I'm Carol Hughes, and on this episode of The Grave Talks, a conversation about

0:47.2

nightmares with J.M. DeBoard, author of Nightmares, your guide to interpreting your darkest dreams. And thank you so much for being on

0:57.2

the show today. I really appreciate this and I'm really excited to dive into this as well.

1:02.5

I am too, Carol. Thank you for having me on your show and giving me this opportunity to give

1:07.8

your listeners a little tutorial, a run through of what nightmares are and why we have them.

1:14.3

And what most people want to know when they're having nightmares is what they can do about it to make

1:18.9

them stuff.

1:19.3

Exactly.

1:20.3

Yeah, let's cover that.

1:21.3

Can we dive into a little bit of your history and how you got interested in this line of

1:25.9

work and studying dreams, analyzing dreams,

1:28.2

writing about dreams. Yeah, you want to know your expert, right? Exactly. I do. Who's,

1:34.4

who's this guy, you know, and why does anyone think he knows anything more than anyone else about

1:39.1

dreams and nightmares? Well, I got into it about 30 years ago when I was in my early 20s and I was in college.

1:46.7

I was studying something other than, you know, dreams in psychology.

1:51.3

I was in political science and journalism.

1:53.7

And I had a career path ahead of me as a journalist.

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